The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-11-01
FOREIGN NEWS!
San Francisco. October 21st, per s. S.
Mariposa.
Am ERICAN.

1uOaca, ArlZOud.
The Labor party in Boston will nominate
a full legislative ticket.
Judge Addison NJ. Crane of the Superior
Court of Alameda county, CAL, died on the
Goth, aged %.
Governor Waterman of California has
proclaimed Thursday, November oath, as
day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Employers and printers still differ, the
former making a stand against and the lat
ter for nine hours as days work.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher has accepted the
nomination of the Greenback party for Sec
rotary of State in New York.
Peter Kemble. noted maker of Parrot
guns for the Union during the war, died
suddenly in New York on the goth.
The Bay District stables, San Francisco.
were burned the evening of the Goth, several
famous racers perishing in the flames.
Application has been made to the United
States Supreme Court for writ of error in
the case of the condemned Chicago an
archists.
A severe storm has blown fiat almost all
the sugar cane on the plantations along Nor
gan's railroad, from Morgan City to New
Orleans.
The foreign beet crop promises to be 200,-
600 tons less than it was last year, and as the
stock of sugar in the world is 100000 tons
less than it was at this time last year some
people think there will be an advance in
sugar.
President Cleveland and wife were re-
ceived at Rome, Georgia, October 24th by
ten thousand people who were gathered at
the depot Huge bonfres blazed up and
down the track, and over it were thrown two
arches of electric light.
Several of the sealing vessels seized in
northern waters for illegal hunting and fish
ing will be condemned and sold. Their
total valuation is about $1,000 and one of
them has $4,000 worth of sealskins from
Alaska, which will also be sold.
The New York Herald says that even if
New York should go Republican this fall, 1t
would not mean that the Republicans could
carry the State In the Presidential election
next year. 1t supports Col. Fred Grant, the
Republican nominee for Secretary of State.
Mrs r. H. Mcdonald, ir., tried to murder
her father-in-law, Il. H. Mcdonald, ST.. the
wealthy banker, in San Francisco on the
night of the Goth. She fired pistol at his
head but the bullet went too high. Her
motive was his refusal to let her have $780,
600.
Madrid despatch says that the Spanish
Government being convinced that the revolt
at Ponape was the result o. religious perse
cution, has ordered that only those con-
victed OF numbering Spaniards be punished.
and that the indemnity demanded by Amer
lea be paid.
Raymond & Whitcomb. the California ex-
cursion agents, have issued a letter from
their Boston headquarters that they will run
twelve excursions to California the coming
winter. They predict that larger number
| of Eastern people will be in California be-
tween now and April than ever before.
J. E. Smith, Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express
messenger, shot and killed two robbers who
stopped the train between Ell Paso and
Ysleta, Oct II. Their names we're ]. S.
Emerson and Bernard NJ. Dechard. Smith,
who narrowly escaped shots fired at him,
will receive $4,000 for the job, as the South
ern Pacific has a standing offer of $4,000 for
each robber caught or dropped.
Edison has perfected his photograph,
intended to largely take the place of steno-
graphy. The Edison Company is manufac-
turing the machines, that are claimed
to be able to reproduce the voice so
accurately as not to be misunderstood.
The American Graphophone Company is
making machines with the same purpose,
and possibly a contest over patents will arise
between the two companies.
Fires are sweeping through the giant red
wood forests of Forestville, Cal, with fearful
rapidity. The flames were started by Italians
burning brush. and have cut a swath two
miles in width and three in length through
the redwocds. From Calistoga it is reported
that Mount ST. Helena has been entirely
burned over The hills surrounding Sonoma
are almost invisible from dense smoke.
Los Angeles dispatch says the whole country
for miles around San Juan Capistrano is re-
ported to be on fire. A fire started in Scotts
Valley by careless hunter is burning in the
direction of the city of Santa Cruz. A heavy
forest fire is raging five miles west of the
town of Anderson.
A Washington despatch of October DIST
says: Upon the return of President Cleve-
land next week he will have an exceedingly
important and unpleasant task to perform.
The Secretary of State holds that the posi-
ton of the Treasury Department in claim
ing jurisdiction over the waters for more
than three miles from the Alaska shore is
unlawful and contrary to the position as
sumed by the United States in dealing with
the claims of Canada on the Eastern coast
The Attorney General, on the other hand. in
his brief reply on the seizure, takes sides
with the Treasury Department. 1t is as
serted with great positiveness that Mr.. Bay
ard will resign unless he is sustained by the
President, while if the President Endorses
the position of the Secretary of State Mr.
Garland cannot well remain in the Cabinet
The Western Beet Sugar Company. of
which Claus Spreckels is the moving spirit.
are preparing for active operations at once
Previous to his departure for Europe Col
Spreckels distributed large quantity of
beet seed among the farmers throughout the
State. About 100 carloads of machinery al
together will be brought over the Rockies.
and 1t is expected that about 5000 tons of
raw sugar will be produced the first season.
Afterward. with additional plant and in
creased production, it is calculated that Co.,
GOO will be produced annually. The raw
sugar will be refined at the Potrero, and it is
expected that the product of the State will
serve 10 keep the refinery there running the
year round. Experiments now being made
at the refinery with beets grown this season
from the seed distributed by Mr.. Spreckels
are entirely satisfactory, showing higher
percentage than is obtained from the beets
grown In Germany and Belgium. Estimates
also show that thirty tons of beets can be
grown to the acre, which will fetch $3.50 in the
market. F. W. Barrett, publisher of trade
paper in New York, in an interview regard.
ing the proposed Eastern Sugar Trust. saws: